When the Ministers responsible for seeking resolution to the current impasse in South Africa’s renewable-energy sector meet this month, they will be expected to weigh the serious legal and policy implications of backtracking from a Ministerial determination – as well as from one of the country’s few well run procurement processes – against Eskom’s increasingly forceful financial arguments against the signing of further power purchase agreements (PPAs) in the short to medium term.Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has indicated that the inter-Ministerial task team, which also comprises Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson, will meet by mid-February in an effort to find “answers” to the standoff.